After cloning an openSUSE 11.1 installation using Clonezilla (basically did dd and partimage on the hard drive) I had a couple of problems which running the repair system on the DVD fixed all but one. The problems that was fixed include no swap partition on the cloned machines, the root partition trying to be mounted as /data2 instead of /, no GRUB, and it did not update the MBR. The one problem that it did not fix is with the /home partition, when I try and boot a cloned machine I get this error from e2fsck:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the fevice is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
When I tried the command that it suggested I got a “bad magic number” and it reprinted that error.
When I ran fsck -y on that same partition this is what it had to say:
/dev/sda7: clean, 2190/3022848 files, 249069/1278864 blocks
Anyone know what to do in this case?